Bonny Doon Ca del Solo Malvasia Bianca 2004
White Wine
from Central Coast, California
winemaker's notes:
It is so hard to pigeonhole
teenagers. One instant they
are cuddly and adorable, and
the next moment they have
discovered Gandhi or
macrobiotics or something and
are imposing upon themselves
the most rigid, though yes,
admirable austerities. Just
when you think they might
become responsible adults, they
again metamorphose into lush
softies.
In the long, hot summer of
her 15th year, as the horse
latitudes extended into
Monterey County, little
Malvasia has acquired
something of a plush,
languorous, equatorial quality
courtesy of slightly higher
alcohol and touch less acidity
than normal. It is a style of
wine well suited to exotically
aromatized foods, like
Morrocan, Lebanese, Greek or
Indian cuisine.
If structurally
the wine is a departure, the
familiar flavor signifiers are all
there to remind one of the
changeling in one's glass: pink
grapefruit, litchi and pear along
with the vaguest, reposeinducing
suggestion of candied
ginger.
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A Customer - Burbank, CA
A delicious, very unique white wine. A favorite of everyone I've introduced it to.
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